This timely book is a long meditation on the predicament of Africans caught in the net of irregular migration. It is a stern warning against betting on the mirage of chance and an eye opener on the many subtle lures laid by human traffickers. I hope that policy makers, intellectuals and the public at large engage with thoughts of the author within Africa and beyond
At77, Emeritus Professor Oladipo Akinkugbe chronicles his footprints in nine fascinating chapters spanning his first five decades and in a formidable cluster nine ‘Connecting Dos’-an event-studded aftermath. He ends with an ‘updates’, a ‘Family Portrait’ and a few ‘Named lectures’ illustrating Branding time, mapping the Menace of corruption and the wages of curiosity.
The Years of childhood
“the canons residence was a story building in the parsonage square and it was stolid as the canon himself, riddled with black wooden-framed windows. Bishops court was also a storey-building, but only pupils lived in it so it was not a house. Only the school-room of primary school shared this closeness the woods which was inhabited by spirits and ghommids that made children permanently nervous, and chased them out when they had wandered too deeply in them for firewood, mushrooms and snail
Human beings have always been, and will always remain, unpredictable. This, coupled with the fast emerging IT world which has been aptly referred to as the ‘Jet Age’, presents the HR specialist with a peculiar mix of problems to deal with.
The Human in HR combines the insights and experiences of two seasoned experts in the discipline of Human Resource Management in one book which will, no doubt, prove to be an invaluable instructional manual for twenty-first century Human Resource specialist.
Those who rescue to drink from the well of knowledge will die or thirst in the desert of ignorance. If you tell a fool a proverbs, he will ask you to explain it. It’s not necessary for fingers to look alike, but it is necessary for them to cooperate.
This House of ODUDUWA Must not fall represents a quest to share the ultimate eye-opening journey to the root of the problems of (the geographical entity called) Nigeria.
It chronicles, like a travelogue, the intrigue and scheming of Her Majesty’s servants to dominate Nigeria through and with the connivance of the “Emirate”.
The author’s central hypothesis is awe-inspiring, as it stimulates from a geometrical point, the dissembled conspiracy to subjugate (the people of Southern Nigeria, and in particular) the descendants of Oduduwa.
With a long and distinguished career as an academic, researcher, clinician, public health physician and administrator, prof. Mohammed has had the fortune (or in some cases, misfortune to be involved throughout his life in some of the landmark events in this country, in healthcare and other areas. Between the covers of this book he brings them to life with a richly documented narrative and characteristic meticulous attention to detail.
Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa’s economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last two decades and a half.
Both account for at least 60 per cent of the economy of their respective sub-regions in West and Southern Africa. The success of political and economic integration in Africa thus rests heavily on the shoulders of these two regional powers who have both collaborated and competed with each other in a complex relationship that is Africa’s most indispensable.
In this refreshingly engaging book, Dayo Olopade shines a bright light, literally and figuratively, on the African continent to unearth some of the gems –the individuals- upon whose energy, creativity, and industriousness the future of the continent depends.
The Bright Continent definitely disproves the still prevalent depiction of Africa as a ‘dark’, hopeless continent.’
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.
Accounts of the ceding of Bakassi reveal the intrigues and betrayal of the people of the Bakassi by their government- from the delay in the inssuance of a visa to enable the then Obong of Calabar travel to the Hague and the concomitant frustration of his efforts to testify at the hearings; to the allegation that the President of Nigeria had, during a trip to France, committed both the Presidents of France and Cameroon to accept and abide by the ICJ prior to the judgment; and the abruptness and secrecy which appeared to characterize the signing of the Green Tree Agreement etc.- all appear to suggest that those involved may have been working towards an already determined objective on the Bakassi issue.
‘Africa – concept or reality – is an acknowledged continent of extremes and, by the same token, it is hardly surprising that it draws extreme reactions. The increasingly accepted common ground, both for the negativities and optimists, is the admission that the African continent does not exist in isolation, nor has it stood still in a time-warp, independent of history.
A truly illuminating exploration of Africa has yet to take place. It does not pretend to take place even on the pages of this book, being content with retrieving a few grains for germination from the wasteful threshing floor of Africa’s existential totality.
Foreign Gods, Inc, tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery.
Ike’s plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a major American college, his strong accent barred him from the corporate world.
Forced to eke out a living as a cab driver, he is unable to manage the emotional and marital needs of a temperamental African American bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support.
In this thoughtful and elegantly written book, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu explodes the myths and conventional wisdoms about Africa’s quest for economic growth in a globalised world with a paradigm-shift perspective on the continent’s future.
Masterfully deploying arguments grounded in philosophy, economics and strategy across a range of subjects; from capitalism to transformation agendas, finance to foreign investment, and from innovation and human capital to world trade, he demonstrates persuasively how Africa’s progress in the 21st century will require nothing short of the reinvention of the African mind.
In this fascinating but often harrowing read, five fictional Nigerian women and girls tell their stories of sexual, physical, psychological, mental and verbal abuse in the hands of men and sometimes fellow women.
In detailed flashbacks, they describe horrific experiences that have molded them into the bitter, strong or victorious women that they are today.
In this updated edition of Climate of Fear, based on the 2004 BBC Reith Lectures, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, further explores the many facets of fear which includes the extensive and persuasive hold of religion and spirituality; fear spawned by intolerance and the similarities between these and other forms of despotism.
Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction…our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar.
Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means…This is a fundamental challenge that we must overcome, for a country or nation without a clear worldview simply cannot become a prosperous and powerful one.
Africa: A Miner’s Canary into the Twenty-first Century is a product of the author’s numerous travels through the length and breadth of the continent, either alone or in the company of a former African leader- President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana.
The insight is simply unique. The author has privileged knowledge of the intricate workings of the inner sanctum of African officialdom. His book is riveting, revealing and captures the true essence of Africa-her hopes, aspirations and frustrations and how African leaders struggle with these challenges.
It is chockfull of nuggets of information that can be profitably mined and a must read for anyone who seeks to change Africa for the better.
If we were to play a game of the world that Achebe creates side by side with the world that Soyinka creates we would be seeing two different worlds.
While the success achieved by Achebe and Soyinka have had positive communal repercussions, their greatest successes have to do with their individual achievements in their individual achievements in their ability to write one culture (Igbo and Yoruba) in the language of another culture (English). This is the nature of the greatest writers through time today.
A Mouth Sweeter than Salt gathers the stories and reflections of the greatest sons of Ibadan, the notable Yoruba city-state in Nigeria.
Redefining the autobiographical genre altogether, Falola miraculously weaves together personal, historical, and communal stories, along with political and cultural development in the period immediately preceding and following Nigeria’s independence, to give us a unique and enduring picture of the Yoruba in the mid-twentieth century.
This is truly a literary memoir, told in language rich with proverbs, poetry, song, and humor.
What this book contains is a compilation of the good sides of the former Chief of Staff as espoused by his admirers whom I refer to as The Good; the not so bad accounts by those who felt let down and sidelined in the course of discharge of his duty as the ears and eyes of President Buhari, but tempered their anger with a balance of disappointment and compassion, and whom I have categorized as The Bad; and the very bitter ones amongst us who appear not ready to forgive Abba Kyari even in death and make no bones about their willingness to dance on his grave if they find the opportunity, perhaps owing to deep feelings of hurt arising from the loss of loved ones due to direct and indirect actions of Abba Kyari who they love to hate.
Love Does Not Win Elections is a book about her experiences in the electoral process and Nigerian Politics as a whole. … The book also provides insight into the role that money plays in Nigerian elections.
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, Star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. But when their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself-and there is a cost to living inside a lie.
Thunder protocol is a mid-career oeuvre of lively and impressive poems that examine issues ranging from the personal to the global. The diversity of themes in this poetry collection is both refreshing and startling , with language that is sometimes witty and inventive, and other times reflective and simple.
